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of any known Efficacy, fuch Virtues are 
briefly mentioned as may be depended 
" upon. To which is added, a general 
Diftribution of Plants according to Mr. 
" Ray 5 with an Explanation of feme bo- 
*^ tanical and phyfical Terms ; and an al- 
phabetical Lift of Plants in Flower, for 
every Month in the Year. By Charles 
D E E R I N G, ikT. D. Nottingham^' 8% 
1738, pp. 264. 
The arrangement is alphabetical, and the 
number of plants about 850. The author 
was particularly attached to the fubjefts of 
the Cryftogamia clafs, in which his re- 
fearches had been very fuccefsful. Of the 
number above mentioned, more than 200 
belonged to the orders of Fungi^ Miifcty and 
Algce 'y among which, we meet with 27 
which he confidered as noJidefcriptSy and 10 
others not to be met with in the third edi- 
tion of Ray's Synopjis. He was affifted in 
this branch by his correfpondence with the 
learned Profeffor at Oxford^ who confidered 
fome of his difcoveries as new, and fpeaks 
of his knowledge and affiduity in terms of 
applaufe. In page 89 of his pofthumous 
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